the areas like virginia where senator mccain, senator kelly ayotte of new hampshire, senator lindsey graham of south carolina, you know, took the scare tour and talked about shipbuilding, talked about military bases, talked about defense consulting firms in northern virginia, um, that argument didn't fly in the elections even though they tried to pin these potential effects on president obama. he carried virginia. and i think the reason for that is that the potential effects were not as deep as advertised. people didn't go into the voting booth saying, oh, my goodness, we're going to fall into the ocean if this change in our budget goes forward. part of it is because it's a lot smaller than suggested, part of it is because the contractors are still doing quite well, certainly better than we are. for example, a company like lockheed martin has tens of billions of dollars in backlog that they can work through. there's billions of dollars already in the pipeline in the government that they will receive. any cuts that occur will phase in over time. they're not going to happen on january 2nd. so